Gastric tonometry: Precision and reliability are improved by a phosphate buffered solution

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 512-516

  Knichwitz, Gisbert ^a   Kuhmann, Martin ^a   Brodner, Gerhard ^a   Merles, Norbert ^a   Goeters, Christiane ^a   Brüssel, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

blood gas analysis; carbon dioxide; critical illness; monitoring; partial pressure; tonometry, gastric intramucosal

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHATE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HUMAN; INTESTINE PERFUSION; MESENTERY BLOOD FLOW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH MUCOSA; TONOMETRY;

ADULT; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; BUFFERS; CARBON DIOXIDE; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; PARTIAL PRESSURE; PHOSPHATES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SOLUTIONS; STOMACH;

EID: 0029870068     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199603000-00024     Document Type: Article

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